respect the office even if you dont respect the man isnt that what we heard during the bush years sure enough he was disrespected quite a bit but it was more jovial in nature as most criticisms were based on his perceived lack of intelligence with obama it seems to come from a place of hatred for him or rather what he represents also while the accusations of racism towards obama are thrown around a lot the reason people believe this is simple while it is socially unacceptable to state you are a racist covert racism is rampent and if you cant call him a nigger in public you can still attempt to paint him as an outsider unamerican nonchristian and most importantly not one of us